Uptime: Real Data Checks​ Explained
Other checks work ok, but those don’t check that your customer’s service is actually functioning. Check the real data to know if it’s working!
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Setting Up Uptime Monitoring Guide
Configuring your uptime monitor correctly is critical to good uptime. There are three different types of tests we’ll explore. Real Data, Health Check and Smoke Test.
Each type of test will help us test a different part of our application. We need all of these types working together to build a useful monitoring setup.
Uptime: Health Check Endpoint Explained
When your system has trouble, you need to be alerted so you can fix it before it affects customers. Health checks are quick and easy ways to monitor your app.
What is a Smoke Test?
A smoke check is the same as a smoke test in unit testing. Send a request to an simple endpoint and see if it works. On an e-commerce site, check that…
So you’ve got your tests setup. What happens when there’s an incident? Let’s talk about incidents
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